Dear WIkipedians,
Our next meetup is on Sunday 10th April.
*A request and appeal.*
The monthly meetups need to go on month after month. We need your help. It
is the hub that connects us all together and helps us know each other, work
together and achieve impactful and significant projects locally as a team.
Need all your help and active participation to keep the Meetups going and
vibrant.
*The next meetup*
- I will be leading the meetup this Sunday.
- I have got the venue confirmed. And the wiki page up.
- Have confirmed three speakers..
- Achal will speaking on his research project
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_citations
- Arjuna will be speaking on his experiences from the Annual wikimedia
conference he recently attended at Berlin.
- Anirudh will speaking on his experiences of outreach in the North East.
It will be nice to have a small tech talk or a demo. Spoken to a few people.
Any volunteers?
If we are lucky we will be able to get a wikipedian from another country
speaking....
Please sign up and participate. bring friends and colleagues along. We need
everyones' support to make these events happen.
If you would like to help in the organizing, please get in touch with me or
Arun off list. (yes we need help, please volunteer).
regards
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Hi, here is the report of the 2nd Odia Wikipedia Workshop, Bhubaneswar,
2011April03
The 2nd Odia Wikipedia Academy has been organized on 3April 2011 at
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhubaneswar. This was the first outreach academy of
Odia Wikipedia in Odisha to bring an awareness andmotivate common mass from
different educational and social background. Odia Wikipedia was started way
back in 2002 and was one of the four Indian languages, Asamese, Malayalam,
Odia, Punjabi. But because of the lack of proper awareness and activism
there was a snail movement for almost 8 years. Shiju introduced Odia Wiki
projects to many fellow Odias which later motivated them to bring the Wiki
movement back to the first Odia Wikipedia Academy, conducted in Bengaluru
on. Odia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia in Odia language to make
knowledge available freely for masses.
Dhanada Mishra of Human Resource Development Management Studies has formally
inaugurated this event. A FAQ Booket was released by and distributed among
the first time participants of the Wikipedia Workshop. Wikipedians Shiju
Alex and Tinu Cherian were also took
active part in facilitating the event. The workshop was conducted by Odia
Wikiali (Odia version of an Wikipedian/User) Subha Pa. The whole
Academy/Workshop was conducted in 2 main sections, Subha introduced Odia
Wikipedia to the audience, said about the history and the development and
current status. The second session was focused on how to type in Odia using
the transliteration/Inscript tool which was newly incorporated, solving
typing issues, searching existing articles, creating articles and editing
for enhancement of old article. In this session he has demonstrated how to
add content using the commonly used syntaxes, adding pictures and other
media files. This was an interactive session where the audience interacted
with the demonstrator and each other and several discussions went on based
on the major issues. Several participants from from the nearby management
colleges, engineering students, entrepreneurs, college students have also
participated. At the end of the session a lotion based core group of active
users was formed which will be promoting the Wikipedia movement and bringing
more and more contributors to enhance it, make it more user friendly and
make it reach to masses. Contributors came with several suggestions such as
motivating more and more students and freelancers to contribute and also
monitor the ongoing activities and discussing them through the mailing list
of Odia Wikipedia. [ http://bit.ly/ormail ]. More and more such activism are
expected in the coming future with the involvement of people who are eager
for the development of Odia language on web. Odia Wikipedia can be accessed
at or.wikipedia.org and the Facebook page for Odia Wikipedia is
facebook.com/OdiaWiki
As of now there are 700 articles in Odia Wikipedia, but many of them are to
be enhanced with more information and references. There was a discussion
about how to build a strong community to enhance the articles in both
quality and standard wise, stop vandalism and monitor the activities.
*Photos<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bhubaneswar_Odia_Workshop_2011Ap…>•
In
News <http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=492338&id=174457049272002>•
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/OdiaWiki>*
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ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi
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Please see the scanned attachment, published on 4th April in "*The New
Indian Express*" Pg.2 about the wiki's awareness workshop organized my
Subhashis, Shiju, Tinu in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, bhubaneswar on 3rd April,
2011 http://defn.me/r/or/484
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Thanks & Regards,
Srikant Kedia
Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community
<http://or.wikipedia.org>
Mail ID - odiawiki(a)gmail.com
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Just a reminder of the upcoming Odia Worksop at Bhubaneswar. Subhashish ,
Shiju Alex and me are travelling to Bhubaneswar for this.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is Subhashish from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia.
>
> It is my pleasure to inform you all about the 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia
> Academy/Workshop<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1> is
> going to be organized in Bhubaneswar on 2011April03 at 10 AM, Bharatiya
> Vidya Bhavan. This is the first of its kind of workshop in the home state
> Odisha. The first workshop was conducted by Malayalam Wikipedian Shiju A in
> Bengaluru<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bangalore_1>
> .
>
> *Main Agenda:
> Session1:
> -* Introduction about Wikipedia and Wikipedia Odia
> - Recent developments and new features added in Wikipedia
> - Why Wikipedia Odia?
> - Future deveopment and possible opportunities with Wikipedia
> *Session2:
> -* Discussion of common problems raised (And by audience)
> - Display and typing issues and solution
> - Building community
> - Translation issues & possible measures to solve them
> - Incubation of new projects for students in Odia Wikipedia
> - Future Projects for Odia Wikipedia
>
> Anyone from any other language Wikipedias are most welcome to this event to
> share their thoughts and ideas for the development of Odia Wikipedia. This
> is an open event and free for all. Anyone who has some ideas to share can
> also share them here or here.<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1>
>
> Thanks & Regards
> ସୁଭ ପା/ Subhashish Panigrahi
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Hi Team,
Wish you a very happy Odisha Dibasa, this auspicious day remebers us the the
foundation day of Odisha on 1 April 1936. Odia Wikipedia reaches 699
articles, the 700th article will be on this very special day.
Here <http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:LanguageStats/or>is the link of
all the translated Wiki messages, it is just started, still way to go.
Thanks to Sambi Ra for his support for those of my confusing moments to find
the appropriate messages.
The homepage is recreated and gone through several modifications to make it
error free.
Most of the Categories are created and many are still to be created and all
the articles are to be inter linked and Srikant has done a really good job
of creating most of the important Templates.
We have organized the 1st Odia Wikipedia
Workshop<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bangalore_1>in
Bengaluru and organizing the 2nd
Odia Wikipedia Academy
<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1>on
2011April03 which is going to be first ever Odia Wikipedia workshop in the
home state.
Last but not the list, I thank a lot to Mr. Jayanta Nath for his generous
support and contribution for Odia Wikipedia.
*(ମୁଁ ଅଫିସରେ ଥିବାରୁ XP ରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଠିକ ଭାବେ ଲେଖିପାରୁନାହିଁ, ତେବେ ଆପଣ ମାନେ ରେ
ଉତ୍ତର ଦେଇ ପାରିବେ ।*)
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ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi
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ସଭିଙ୍କୁ ଓଳିଗି,
Sending you the email ID, Facebook Profile and Twitter which you all can
share with others while sending Wikipedia related mails
Mail ID - odiawiki(a)gmail.com
Facebook- facebook.com/OdiaWiki
Tweet @OdiaWiki
Please the official mail list "wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org" in the
signature field, but Add the facebook and Twitter ID so anyone can join the
community. And while sending mails to the Odia Wikipedia mailing list don't
attach any picture in the signature field.
Regards
*ସୁଭପା
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FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop
Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi All,
This is Subhashish from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia.
It is my pleasure to inform you all about the 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia
Academy/Workshop<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1>
is
going to be organized in Bhubaneswar on 2011April03 at 10 AM, Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan. This is the first of its kind of workshop in the home state
Odisha. The first workshop was conducted by Malayalam Wikipedian Shiju A in
Bengaluru <http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bangalore_1>
.
*Main Agenda:
Session1:
-* Introduction about Wikipedia and Wikipedia Odia
- Recent developments and new features added in Wikipedia
- Why Wikipedia Odia?
- Future deveopment and possible opportunities with Wikipedia
*Session2:
-* Discussion of common problems raised (And by audience)
- Display and typing issues and solution
- Building community
- Translation issues & possible measures to solve them
- Incubation of new projects for students in Odia Wikipedia
- Future Projects for Odia Wikipedia
Anyone from any other language Wikipedias are most welcome to this event to
share their thoughts and ideas for the development of Odia Wikipedia. This
is an open event and free for all. Anyone who has some ideas to share can
also share them here or
here.<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1>
Thanks & Regards
ସୁଭ ପା/ Subhashish Panigrahi
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>Just an example fi or Finnish is actually called Suomi in Finland :)
Interesting. Some exonyms just stick, I suppose. :)
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>________________________________
>From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
>To: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>; Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: Oriya Wikipedia <wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 AM
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
>
>
>Hoi,
>The or code is from the ISO-639-1, the code in the ISO-639-3 is ori. The codes are meant as a unique identifier and making them easy to remember is in some way helpful in others it is problematic. It is problematic because all the existing expressions in a language will still be known by the old code.
>
>Consequently the codes stay the same and the new name is added with the old name as a valid synonym. To understand this, these names and codes are used internationally and the rest of the world does often find it hard to change.
>
>Just an example fi or Finnish is actually called Suomi in Finland :)
>Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
>On 24 March 2011 16:34, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>If ISO code also changes correspondingly from or to od, we should perhaps move wiki projects as well?
>>
>>
>>- Sundar
>>
>>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
>>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>>
>>
>>>________________________________
>>>From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
>>>To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Oriya Wikipedia <wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:59 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Indian Parliament approves new name for Oriya language and Orissa state.
>>>
>>>Now onwards the Oriya language will be called as Odia and the Orissa state will hereafter be called Odisha.
>>>
>>>More detailed news here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/parliament-approve…
>>>
>>>
>>>Shiju
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If ISO code also changes correspondingly from or to od, we should perhaps move wiki projects as well?
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>________________________________
>From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
>To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Oriya Wikipedia <wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:59 PM
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
>
>
>Indian Parliament approves new name for Oriya language and Orissa state.
>
>Now onwards the Oriya language will be called as Odia and the Orissa state will hereafter be called Odisha.
>
>More detailed news here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/parliament-approve…
>
>
>Shiju
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